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To get a better idea of how primitive moneylending works, you don't need to travel back in time |
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There are plenty of modern-day Shylocks remarkably close to home |
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And they don't need to be Jewish to suffer a similar fate to Shylock |
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This is Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow |
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It's actually where my grandmother used to live |
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And I think with its distinctive steel shuttering, it's one of the grimmest places in the whole of western Europe |
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In fact, average male life expectancy here is just 64, which is slightly worse than Bangladesh |
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That means that the average Shettlestonian doesn't actually live long enough to collect his state pension |
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You might think nobody would be mad enough to try and provide financial services here |
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But someone does |
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